A Treatise On Poetry: IV Natura (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Pennsylvania, 1948-1949The garden of Nature opens. The grass at the threshold is green. And an almond tree begins to bloom. ...
Czeslaw Milosz Poems on World (26 Poems)
City Without A Name (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 Who will honor the city without a name If so many are dead and others pan gold Or sell ...
It Was Winter (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Winter came as it does in this valley. After eight dry months rain fell And the mountains, straw-colored, turned green ...
A Magic Mountain (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
I don't remember exactly when Budberg died, it was either two years ago or three. The same ...
Ars Poetica? (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
Campo di Fiori (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In Rome on the Campo di FioriBaskets of olives and lemons,Cobbles spattered with wineAnd the wreckage of flowers.Vendors cover the ...
Conversation with Jeanne (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
A Poem For the End of the Century (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When everything was fineAnd the notion of sin had vanishedAnd the earth was readyIn universal peaceTo consume and rejoiceWithout creeds ...
Winter (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
The pungent smells of a California winter, Grayness and rosiness, an almost transparent full moon. I add logs to the ...
Statue of a Couple (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Your hand, my wonder, is now icy cold.The purest light of the celestial domehas burned me through. And now we ...
A Song On The End Of The World (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
Song on the End of the World (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A Fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
Incantation (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,No sentence of banishment can prevail against ...
On Angels (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
All was taken away from you: white dresses,wings, even existence.Yet I believe you,messengers. There, where the world is turned inside ...
Theodicy (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
No, it won't do, my sweet theologians. Desire will not save the morality of God. If he created beings able ...
Statue of a Couple (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Your hand, my wonder, is now icy cold. The purest light of the celestial dome has burned me through. And ...
Woe! (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
It is true, our tribe is similar to the bees, It gathers honey of wisdom, carries it, stores it in ...
Conversation with Jeanne (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
Song on the End of the World (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A Fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
Unde Malum (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Where does evil come from? It comes from man always from man only from man - Tadeusz Rozewicz Alas, dear ...
On Angels (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world ...
Ars Poetica? (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
Campo di Fiori (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In Rome on the Campo di Fiori Baskets of olives and lemons, Cobbles spattered with wine And the wreckage of ...
Meaning (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true ...
Incantation (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can ...
A Poem For the End of the Century (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To ...